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💬 The Wrap

Hello from San Jose California, where the next Unicode Technical Committee meeting has just begun.

I'm here on behalf of Emojipedia and on the agenda are candidates for the 2019 emoji set, with some of the most visible so far being Apple’s proposal for accessibility emojis (made public last month) as well as a proposal looking at whether more color options (⚪️🔴⚫️🔵) should be made available for future emoji releases. White wine is always a popular request, and these could assist with that.

Here's another proposal I like a lot: Pinching gesture (can be used to mean "small")

This meeting won't determine that final emoji list for 2019, but it is an important step along the way.

I don't know how I missed this last year, but here's some great stats from linguist Tyler Schnoebelen mapping emoji use by celebrities over time; including Nicki Minaj, Snoop Dogg, DJ Khaled and of course Cher.

A new open source emoji project from Interaction and Communication Design students of the Hochschule für Gestaltung Schwäbisch Gmünd (University of Applied Sciences). With EmojiOne going for a freemium model in 2017, there seems to be renewed interest in open source projects like this.

This might be the first emoji update that Google is rolling out via EmojiCompat. This means that apps with EmojiCompat support will see the new water pistol, while the rest will see the old one. To be rectified when Android P comes out later in the year.

🤗 Lastly

There’s been a lot of new subscribers to Emoji Wrap this month, so if this is your first issue, welcome! We’ve got a great team at Emojipedia that cover emerging trends in emoji usage, as well as documenting changes from each vendor in how they display various emojis.